Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 282,777 sales registered with HM Land Registry in the CO postcode area (Colchester) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
CO is the postcode area centred on Colchester, taking in 16 districts. Figures this wide smooth over big local differences, so use the district reports below for anywhere specific.
Where CO sits
Click the map to open CO on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£297,500median sold price, 2026
+3%five-year change (cash)
6,421sales in the last 12 months
4.2%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in CO sells for
The 2026 median in CO is £297,500, from 1,869 registered sales; the mean, £329,700, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so CO trades 9% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CO home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£297,500
£297,500
1,869
2025
£312,000
£312,000
8,133
2024
£300,000
£311,512
8,045
2023
£310,000
£332,659
7,334
2022
£310,000
£355,021
9,859
2021
£290,000
£358,602
12,500
2020
£270,000
£342,149
8,238
2019
£260,000
£332,839
8,842
2018
£257,000
£334,585
9,375
2017
£250,000
£333,012
9,544
2016
£222,000
£303,327
9,835
2015
£200,000
£276,000
9,437
2014
£182,000
£252,169
9,427
2013
£178,000
£250,143
7,518
2012
£175,000
£251,563
6,252
2011
£172,000
£253,590
6,252
2010
£170,000
£260,377
6,149
2009
£160,000
£251,195
6,204
2008
£170,000
£272,158
5,725
2007
£179,000
£296,543
11,259
2006
£170,000
£288,206
11,417
2005
£164,000
£285,038
8,921
2004
£155,000
£274,936
10,455
2003
£136,000
£244,694
10,076
2002
£115,000
£211,318
11,445
2001
£89,500
£168,041
11,167
2000
£78,000
£149,500
10,311
1999
£67,500
£131,382
11,325
1998
£60,000
£118,286
9,853
1997
£56,000
£112,163
10,298
1996
£52,200
£107,516
8,716
1995
£51,000
£108,277
6,996
In cash terms the typical CO home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £297,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 175%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CO median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+28.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
−4.6%
−4.6%
5 years (since 2021)
+0.5%
−3.7%
10 years (since 2016)
+3.0%
−0.2%
20 years (since 2006)
+2.8%
+0.2%
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
CO recorded 6,421 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 10,631 sales a year before the financial crisis and 7,048 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around CO
CO falls under Tendring, the local authority covering most of the CO area (parts fall under Colchester and Braintree, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,051 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £757 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,585, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Tendring
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £297,500 median sold price, £1,051 a month is £12,612 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Will CO prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
The spread across the CO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, CO area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every CO district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.